Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Congress party for leaving the country in “an abyss of helplessness, destitution and inferiority complex” due to sluggish economic growth when it was in power from the 1950s to the 1980s. Modi, while addressing the NDA leaders’ meeting at Bharat Mandapam in Delhi, said that although Congress was responsible for India’s slow growth for years, the country’s vast Hindu population was instead blamed for it. PM Modi has become India’s longest-serving Prime Minister. PM Modi said that instead of the sluggish growth rate being called the “Hindu growth rate”, a term that was, according to him, used cunningly for years, it should be called the “Congress growth rate”. The Prime Minister said that the country’s growth picked up pace only when Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government came into power. “The Congress had plunged the country into an abyss of helplessness, destitution, and an inferiority complex. The nation was conditioned to believe that development in India inevitably moves at a snail’s pace, that rapid growth was simply not possible here. …